Regulator Performance Framework

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As part of the Australian Government’s Regulatory Reform Agenda, the
Regulator Performance Framework (RPF) has been established as a means for Commonwealth regulators to evaluate, in partnership with key stakeholder groups, overall regulatory performance.

The RPF applies to all Commonwealth entities and functions that have statutory responsibility to administer, monitor or enforce regulation. For us, the RPF applies to the following organisational functions:

Functions that are involved in law enforcement, non-compliance and courts or tribunals are exempt from the Framework. This includes functions relating to detention, illegal maritime arrivals, counter-terrorism and countering violent extremism.

The RPF requires regulators to annually assess their performance against six mandatory key performance indicators (KPIs).

Evidence metrics

To support our assessment against these mandatory KPIs, organisational-specific evidence metrics have been developed: